Resume for Peter Quinlan
Summary
Ten plus years experience in design, development, implementation and support of various computing environments. Extensive experience optimizing websites for greater visibility within search engines.
Search Engine Optimization Manager, 5/2009 – 5/2010
PEAK6 online, LLC
- Responsible for Search engine optimization across all peak6 properties, including onn.tv, optionshouse.com, yogaspot.com and peak6.com
- Increased non branded SEO visits from less than 5% to over 60% on ONN.tv
- Reviewed all product releases for SEO best practices
- Introduced feeds for both Google News and AOL finance, resulting in large quantities of traffic
- Recommended Wordpress as a blogging platform which increased site crawlability
- Worked with content team on blog topics in an effort to boost back link profile
- Eliminated Duplicate content
- Educated content team on best practices, including page titles, title tags, description tags and content voice
Search Engine Optimization Project Manger, 12/2007 – 10/2008
Zillow.com
- Experience in dealing with a very large national real estate website, consisting of over 250,000,000 web pages
- Responsible for tripling non branded SEO monthly visits, and growing
- Managed the redesign of the internal search process in order to make site more crawlable
- Consulted all product teams on SEO for each product release
- Increased the number of backlinks using widgets and embeddable charts
- Introduced the idea of co-branding on all back links via badges and widgets
- Using various SEO tools, identified an extensive list of potential link partners
- Educated developers on SEO best practices in order to optimize the site proactively
- Responsible for analyzing and reporting site traffic data
- Managed internal PPC campaigns
- Uncovered a number of canonical and architectural issues that, when fixed, increased crawlability
- Responsible for tripling the site referrals from Zillowblog to Zillow in 2 months
Interactive Project Manager, 11/2006 – 12/2007
John L. Scott Real Estate
- Managed the redesign of the John L. Scott corporate website
- Increased search engine traffic from 17% to 25% using SEO and SMM tactics
- Research new technologies and tools, and coordinate implementation
- Implemented website analytics package
- Provide recommendations based on website traffic patterns
- Educated agents on SEO best practices
- Implementing companywide blogging strategy
Sales and Business Development, 9/2004 – 11/2006
AgentImage.com (The Design People)
- Created complete website product lines for Mortgage, Contractors, and eCommerce
- Managed $30k a month PPC campaign
- Launched Internet marketing department
- Developed products for Natural Optimization, Pay-per-Click and Email Marketing
- Established Internet Marketing department
- Consulted with clients on how to effectively increase site traffic and conversion
- Implemented and managed $30k/month PPC campaign
- Responsible for sales of all custom and high end web sites
Education
1994, California State University, Northridge B.S., Environmental and Occupational Health Science
1996, College America Technical School, Technical Certificate, Hardware Repair and Networking